febmar2016

Tips for Bringing Your In-House Experience to a Startup

Taking your legal skills to a startup requires major adjustments. The author suggests things to consider as you refine your resume and think through […]

How Law Departments Spend

A 2015 survey of about 300 corporations found that median total legal spend increased two percent over the 2014 results, to $27 million, but […]

Impact of Campbell-Ewald on Class Action Litigation

In January the Supreme Court, in a split decision, held that defendant Campbell-Ewald did not do enough to moot plaintiff Jose Gomez’s case by […]

Social Media Analysis for Investigations and Trials

Research into what people post on social media sites, and with whom they communicate, is increasingly being used in corporate investigations and trial intelligence. […]

Ethics have Calculable Value

Implementing socially responsible policies and promoting an ethical way of doing business generates profits as well as good will. Socially responsible actions make consumers […]

Legal Analytics for Strategy and Case Management

Legal analytics involves the use of data to make quantitative legal predictions that inform decisions made in both the business of law (law department […]

Information Sharing under the New Cybersecurity Law

The text of the the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) was incorporated by amendment into a consolidated spending bill in the House, and signed […]

Board Responsibilities for Cybersecurity

Cyber risk has taken its place next to credit risk, liquidity risk and operational risk as a pressing threat to a company’s health. Board […]

Legal and IT Procurement Must Cooperate

Corporations trying to adopt best practices have evolved an interdependent and interdisciplinary arrangement, where IT Supply Chain, commonly called IT Procurement, becomes the front-end/gating […]

Rule Amendment Encodes Proportionality

Possibly the most important of the recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure relate to Rule 26(b)(1), which sets forth discovery scope […]